Soul, Doubt, Paradox: The Mysteries of Paolo Roversi
‘Your style is not a technique, your style is your soul,’ Roversi tells Tim Blanks.
Fashion’s Mona Lisa is Canadian model Kirsten Owen as she was photographed in the mid-’80s by Paolo Roversi in his friend Romeo Gigli’s designs. Owen was 16 when she first sat for Roversi, but her haunted, haunting composure belies her age. She is quite the match of Leonardo’s Renaissance original. “My angel of light,” Roversi calls her now. “Much better than a muse, she was really unique, the first model who taught me that fashion photography could touch another dimension.” Everything he took from that lesson will be on display this summer at the MOP Foundation in A Coruña, Spain, where Roversi is the latest in a series of spectacular exhibitions that Inditex chair Marta Ortega Perez has devoted to the icons of fashion photography.
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